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Company to help small business teammate on U.S. Missile Defense Agency Joint National Integration Center Research and Development Contract HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has signed a U.S. Department of Defense mentor-protege agreement with Davidson Technologies, a teammate on Northrop Grumman's Joint National Integration Center Research and Development Contract (JRDC). Under the JRDC, Northrop Grumman has led a world-class team...

U.S. Navy system to monitor vast ocean areas and coastal regions PALMDALE, Calif., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC)-built MQ-4C Triton high-altitude unmanned aircraft successfully completed its first flight today from the company's manufacturing facility in Palmdale. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121024/LA98563LOGO) A photo accompanying this release can be found at...

LONDON, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced that its Europe-based air traffic management systems subsidiary, in collaboration with NATS, the U.K. air traffic management services provider, has deployed an airspace communication system that will enhance air safety in the East Shetland Basin oil-producing area of the North Sea. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121024/LA98563LOGO) Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems was selected to...

SHM-XEL platform to generate high thermostability antibodies for biodefense applications SAN DIEGO, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AnaptysBio, Inc., a privately-held therapeutic antibody company, today announced the receipt of a contract award from the U.S. government for the development of highly thermostable anti-ricin antibodies for biodefense applications. Under the terms of AnaptysBio's contract with the Science and Technology Corporation, AnaptysBio will be responsible for...

Event marks first catapult launch of an unmanned aircraft from a ship NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and the U.S. Navy today launched a new chapter in the history of unmanned systems - carrier-capable unmanned aircraft - by successfully catapulting the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator from the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77). (Logo:...

Shore-based test adds momentum, confidence for upcoming carrier trials. NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and the U.S. Navy have conducted the first fly-in arrested landing of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121024/LA98563LOGO) Photos accompanying this release are available at...

Rubberized Tracks Could Make CHIMP a Champ in DARPA Robotics Challenge PITTSBURGH, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A team from Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center is building a new class of robot to compete in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Robotics Challenge -- a human-size robot that moves, not by walking, but on rubberized tracks on the extremities of each of its four limbs. (Logo:...

In the news release, Lockheed Martin Receives $71 Million Long Range Anti-Ship Missile Contract from the U.S. Navy, issued 05-Mar-2013 by Lockheed Martin over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the headline reference to "the U.S. Navy" should be "DARPA" and the first paragraph, first sentence, reference to "the U.S. Navy" should be "the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)". The complete, corrected release follows: Lockheed Martin Receives $71 Million Long Range...

FALLS CHURCH, Va., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced today it is designating five centers of design and integration excellence in support of its Aerospace Systems sector's manned aircraft, unmanned systems and electronic attack businesses. In addition, the company announced plans to close an Information Systems sector facility in Dominguez Hills, Calif. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121024/LA98563LOGO) "Consolidating...

FREIBURG, Germany, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), in cooperation with Saab Aerosystems, has provided the attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) for the nEUROn Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator, which recently completed a successful first flight. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121024/LA98563LOGO) Northrop Grumman's German navigation systems subsidiary, Northrop Grumman LITEF, supplied the fibre-optic,...